Gina Trapani is the lead editor at one of the most popular blogs in the world, lifehacker.com, offering daily advice on how to work smart, not just hard. She is also the author of Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster Better. I had the chance to ask her some tough questions […]

A couple weeks ago I wrote a post on creative sabbaticals. It featured Stefan Sagmeister, a design studio owner who takes a year off from client work every seven years to boost his creativity. Readers reacted strongly, polarized into two camps: The “I wish!” folks, for whom a sabbatical seems like a distant dream, and […]

In an early episode of the excellent TV series Mad Men, agency partner Roger Sterling walks into creative director Don Draper’s office to find Don gazing off into space. “I’ll never get used to the fact that most of the time it looks like you’re doing nothing,” Sterling quips. Sterling should take comfort in the […]

You could almost hear the groans from PC-centric IT teams when Apple made the announcement: the latest version of the Mac operating system, Snow Leopard, will offer out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. It’s bad enough that more employees want to trade their BlackBerry in for an iPhone; this means folks who love their home […]

The first dot-com I worked at back in 2000 didn’t survive, but one bit of office culture from that experience has stuck with me. In meetings, if a discussion veered too far from the agenda, someone would say, “Let’s take this offline.” Today I work at home, managing projects and communicating with co-workers and editors […]

Like all powerful tools, email is a blessing AND a curse. On one hand you can instantly send a message around the world with the click of a button. On the other, an active email address subjects you to a shower of spam, automated notifications, irrelevant CC’s, rambling memos, and urgent requests all stuffed into […]

All managers spend a bigger chunk of their workdays in meetings than they’d like. Meetings interrupt your workflow, eat up hours you could be spending more productively, and even increase fatigue. While getting everyone in a room to discuss an issue might be the only way to make a decision, some companies have laid down […]

Small rectangular pieces of cardstock with your name, phone number and company logo are going the way of the land line, compact disc, and yellow pages. You might still come away from meetings with a briefcase full of business cards, but most likely you’re going to search the web for a company or contact before […]

Google Wave is a new communication tool that the search giant bills as “what email would look like if it were invented today.” While the plan to modernize email is laudable and ambitious, Google Wave’s whiz-bang features can feel confusing and chaotic to new users. However, if regular people can make the leap that Wave […]

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